Strategy, Guidance and Support Across the Private Equity Investment Lifecycle

Successfully navigating the complex private equity and alternatives landscape requires discipline, expertise and vision.

Mansfield Investment Management is well positioned as an independent specialist merchant banking practice that provides asset management as well as advisory services within the alternatives asset class.

At Mansfield Investment Management, we partner with private equity managers, private equity-owned businesses and institutional investors. We leverage our decades of industry expertise to help our clients successfully execute on existing goals as well as identify and implement new growth initiatives. This is accomplished by internal expertise and through an extensive network of strategic relationships – built over the past three decades – to drive value creation.

Our Services

  • Investor Relations and LP Management

    Establish, manage and enhance relationships with existing investors and engage with prospective investors

  • New Product Development

    Strategic insights into product innovation, including assessing market viability, developing go-to-market strategies and setting launch parameters

  • Capital Markets Expertise

    Informed guidance to help portfolio companies secure both debt and equity capital as required

  • Transaction Advice

    Comprehensive consultative expertise throughout the entire transaction lifecycle from initial negotiations to deal execution, restructuring, M&A and buy or sell side mandates

  • Business and Firm Operations

    Provide strategic advice on firm management matters and operating the business

  • Human Capital

    Informed guidance on Human Capital Management (HCM) principles and procedures for asset managers

Firm Leadership

Jon Mansfield, Founder of Mansfield Investment Management, is a seasoned investor and financial services professional with 30 years experience navigating complex capital structures and delivering bespoke solutions in transaction origination, business development, investment management, lending, deal structuring and investor relations.

Previously, Mr. Mansfield served as Partner and COO of the Private Equity Group at Ares Management Corporation, where he helped manage and oversee all of the operating aspects of the group covering investor relations, new product development, financial planning & budgeting and human capital management. Earlier, he was a Partner of Praesidian Capital and a Managing Partner of Praesidian Capital Europe, where he focused on providing senior and subordinated debt along with growth capital to private lower middle market businesses in the U.S. and Europe. Before that, he worked in the distressed debt group at Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette and was a Founding Partner of WP Global Partners, a multi-billion-dollar private equity asset manager.

Mr. Mansfield received his MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BA in International Relations from Boston University.

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